Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments)

Affirm

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Remote, US Posted 15 days ago $225,000–$275,000 / year

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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a seasoned Engineering Manager at Affirm, you will lead the Developer Environments team responsible for building and operating platforms that support environment provisioning, test execution, and automated developer infrastructure. Your role involves setting technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and fostering collaboration across engineering teams to enhance developer productivity through tooling and automation. You will work with cloud-native systems like AWS and Kubernetes, using Python or Kotlin, while ensuring high reliability and usability of the systems you design. This position requires 7+ years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years in management, along with expertise in CI/CD systems, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Python Docker CI/CD Terraform Helm Buildkite Jenkins GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity.
Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale, aligning with business goals.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers to foster ownership and collaboration.
Own design, scalability, reliability, and usability of systems for ephemeral dev environments.
Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to minimize downtime.

What we're looking for

7+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years in engineering management.
Proven leadership in infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer productivity roles.
Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems with Python or Kotlin proficiency.
Experience building and operating cloud-native systems like AWS and Kubernetes.
Hands-on expertise with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools.

Market check

Salary context

This $225,000–$275,000 range sits above 93% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$137,650–$220,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$151,450–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Affirm

Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Affirm currently has 57 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,000–$240,000 across 56 roles with salary data.

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